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Tour de France 2023

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Tour de france 2023 results.

Stage 21: Jonas Vingegaard crowned Tour de France champion in Paris / As it happened

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won the Tour de France for the second  year in a row after finishing safely in the main field with his Jumbo-Visma teammates. Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe) sprinted to victory on the Champs-Elysées, beating green jersey Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) by less than a tyre width to take his first stage victory of the Tour de France.

Vingegaard topped the general classification with a 7:29 ahead of Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and 10:56 on Pogačar’s teammate Yates.

Stage 20: Tour de France: Pogacar rebounds to take stage 20 victory as Vingegaard seals his second overall title / As it happened

Rebounding after a disastrous stage 17 on Col de la Loze, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won the final mountain stage of the 2023 Tour de France. Crossing the line in third, with the same time, was Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) who is set to claim the overall victory for a second year, with just Sunday’s final parade stage to Paris left to race. Felix Gall (AG2R-Citroën) was second on the stage. Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), who delivered one final attack on his home roads to the delight of the huge crowds massing the roads, was caught on the final climb.

There were no changes in the top 3 on the general classification, Vingegaard, Pogačar and Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) are set to be on the final podium. Fourth on the stage, Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) moved up to fourth overall.

Stage 19: Tour de France: Mohoric outsprints Asgreen in drag race to stage 19 finish / As it happened

There was no rest and little recovery on a wickedly fast stage 19 of the Tour, where the winning breakaway took 100 kilometres to go clear. Three riders attacked from the 36-rider move, with Matej Mohorič giving Bahrain Victorious their third stage win after Pello Bilbao on stage 10 and Wout Poels on stage 15. The GC contenders all came in together almost 14 minutes behind.

Stage 18: Tour de France: Kasper Asgreen seizes stage 18 victory from all-day breakaway / As it happened

Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep) won the closing sprint on stage 18 of the Tour de France to hold off his breakaway companions and a surging peloton. After 185 kilometres at the front of the race with Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) and Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep) and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X), it came down to the final 200 metres to secure the win for Asgreen, leaving Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto Dstny), who had bridged across 58km earlier, in second and Abrahamsen third. 

There were no changes in the general classification on the largely-flat stage between Moûtiers to Bourg-en-Bresse, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) remaining in yellow.

Stage 17:   Tour de France: Vingegaard dashes Pogacar's GC hopes on stage 17 across Col de la Loze / As it happened

Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën) attacked from a reduced front group with under 13km to go and held on for a solo victory across the Col de la Loze on stage 17 of the Tour de France. Race leader Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) stamped his authority on the queen stage by dropping his main rival Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) on the final climb. Pogačar finished the stage 7:37 down – 5:45 behind Vingegaard – leaving him still in second place overall but a massive 7:35 back of the Dane.

Stage 16: Tour de France: Vingegaard removes all doubt, crushes Pogacar in stage 16 time trial / As it happened

After two weeks of racing for seconds, Jonas Vingegaard finally carved out a significant gap over second-placed Tadej Pogačar in the stage 16 time trial in Combloux. Vingegaard won the stage by 1 minute 38 seconds over his rival to extend his lead in the GC to 1:48.

Stage 15: Tour de France: Wout Poels blasts to blockbuster stage 15 solo victory / As it happened

The stalemate between Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) continued on the third mountainous day in a row at the Tour de France. The duo marked each other’s attacks on the final climb to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and ultimately crossed the finish line together. Attacking from the break, Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) won stage 15 after an 11km solo ride to to claim his first Tour de France stage win.

Stage 14: Tour de France: Carlos Rodríguez strikes for win on stage 14 as Vingegaard gains valuable second on Joux Plane / As it happened

Rivals Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) continued their intense battle on the final climb on stage 14 of the Tour de France with the yellow jersey Vingegaard gaining one second in an evenly matched duel. Both riders used their respective teams to dispatch all the other riders before fighting it out on the Col de la Joux Plane. Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers) took advantage of the situation to fly down the descent to take the win in Morzine, and move up to third overall.

Stage 13: Tour de France: Kwiatkowski wins stage 13 on Grand Colombier as Pogacar closes in on yellow / As it happened

The Tour de France overall standings remained neck-and-neck between leader Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar on stage 13, the second hors-categorie summit finish of the race. Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos) won the stage from the breakaway, while UAE Team Emirates burned up the team to set up Pogačar. Vingegaard was on guard and fended his rival off until the final metres, losing eight seconds total but keeping the maillot jaune.

Stage 12:   Tour de France: Ion Izagirre secures solo victory on frantic stage 12 / As it happened

Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) won stage 12 of the Tour de France with a solo attack 30km from the line in Belleville-en-Beaujolais. His long-range breakaway rewarded the Basque rider with his second career Tour win, the last one coming in 2016. Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) outsprinted Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar) 58 seconds back to complete the podium. 

The hectic first half of the hilly 168.8km stage saw lots of attack, including Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) who was rewarded as the most combative rider. There were no changes between the top GC leaders, with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) still in yellow and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) in second and in the best young rider jersey.

Stage 11: Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen flies to fourth sprint victory on stage 11 / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) showed more blistering speed, proving himself the best sprinter of the Tour de France on stage 11 to Moulins even without any lead-out from Mathieu van der Poel.

It was a squeaky clean sprint from the Belgian who has endured a flood of hate-mail about his previous sprints.

Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies) was the day's sole breakaway rider and caught with 13km to go. The GC standings remained the same as all of the contenders finished in the peloton.

Stage 10: Tour de France: Pello Bilbao scorches sprint from breakaway to win stage 10 / As it happened

Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) out-sprinted Georg Zimmerman (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and Ben O'Connor (AG2R Citroën) to win stage 10 of the Tour de France on a sizzlingly-hot day. The Spaniard was part of the day's breakaway that brought six riders into Issoire, where he claimed the first stage victory of his career.

The breakaway gained 2:53 on the group containing race leader Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), rival Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) third-placed Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) to keep the top four in the GC standings the same.

Stage 9: Tour de France: Michael Woods triumphs with stage 9 victory atop Puy de Dôme / As it happened

The Tour de France reached the mythical ascent of the Puy de Dôme at the finish of stage 9 where Michael Woods (Israel Premier Tech) triumphed with the day's victory after being part of a large breakaway that gained upwards of 15 minutes on the main GC contenders during the stage.

On the upper slopes of the ascent, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) then surged with 1.5km to go, to put valuable seconds into Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma). Vingegaard now leads Pogačar by 17 seconds in the battle for the yellow.

Stage 8: Tour de France: Mads Pedersen beats Jasper Philipsen to win crash-marred stage 8 / As it happened

Stage 8 was a highly anticipated day for the puncheurs, even so, Mark Cavendish had his sights set on a 35th career stage win at the Tour de France, but it wasn't meant to be as the Manxman crashed with 60km to go and forced to abandon the event.

In a chaotic finish to the hilly run-in to Limoges, which saw a late-race crash take down Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla), Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) stormed to the victory in a close sprint ahead of Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). Jonas Vingegaard finished safely in the field and carries the yellow jersey into stage 9 with a finish at Puy de Dôme.

Stage 7: Tour de France: Philipsen denies Cavendish, completes hat-trick in Bordeaux / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) blasted across the line in Bordeaux to win stage 7 of the Tour de France, winning by one bike length over Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan). Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) finished third in the sprint.

For Philipsen, it was his third victory of the three sprint stages in the first week of the 2023 race. He bolted down the main avenue and passed Cavendish in the closing 50 metres, holding the Manxman's attempt at a record 35th Tour stage win  at bay.

Stage 6: Tour de France: Tadej Pogacar claws back time with victory at Cauterets / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won stage 6 with a massive attack across the final 2.7km and stormed back into the general classification mix. He distanced Jonas Vingegaard at the line at Cauterets by 24 seconds, while the Jumbo-Visma rider took the overall lead and yellow jersey away from Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), who was 2:39 back in sixth place. 

Vingegaard now has a 25-second advantage over rival Pogačar, while Hindley held the third spot in the overall, 1:34 back, after the massive 144.9km climbing day in the Pyrenees. 

Stage 5: Tour de France: Jai Hindley wins stage 5 as Vingegaard drops Pogacar in Pyrenees / As it happened

The first of the Pyrenean stages at the Tour de France had the potential to shake up the general classification, and it did just that as Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) went on a day-long attack, won stage 5 into Laruns and took the yellow leader's jersey in the process.

Hindley moved into the overall race lead by 47 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and 1:03 on Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), as Tadej Pogaçar (UAE Emirates) slipped to 6th now at 1:40 back.

Stage 4: Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen wins two in a row in crash-marred stage 4 / As it happened

There was no doubt who won stage 4 at the Tour de France, with Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) securing his second-consecutive sprint stage win in Nogaro. A day for the sprinters ended in carnage, however, as several riders crashed along the motor speedway circuit that hosted the finish.

There were no changes to the overall classification as Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) finished in the field at the end of the 181.8km stage and will wear the yellow leader's jersey into stage 5.

Stage 3 - Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen wins stage 3 after impressive lead-out from Mathieu van der Poel / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen  (Alpecin-Deceuninck) rocketed across the line in a bunch sprint in Bayonne to win stage 3 of the 2023 Tour de France. A half a wheel behind, Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) claimed second and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny) third.

All the general classification contenders, including Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) in the yellow jersey, finished safely in the field with no time changes after 193.5km from the hills of Spanish Basque territory to the roads of France.

Stage 2 - Tour de France: Victor Lafay gives Cofidis their first win since 2008 on stage 2 / As it happened

Victor Lafay (Cofidis) put in a stunning attack to claim stage 2 in San Sébastian. The Frenchman clipped off the front of a select group that formed after the Jaizkibel and stole the show from Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), who won the sprint for second.

Tadej Pogačar added to his tally with a time bonus for third and also won the five bonus seconds atop the Jaizkibel ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma). His teammate Adam Yates held the lead by six seconds.

Stage 1 - Tour de France stage 1: Adam Yates wins ahead of twin brother Simon in Bilbao / As it happened

Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) won stage 1 of the Tour de France in Bilbao, outsprinting his brother Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula)  after the duo escaped together after the final climb of the Pike. Adam Yates leads the general classification by 8 seconds over his brother, and 18 seconds over his teammate Tadej Pogačar who finished third on the stage.

Enric Mas (Movistar) abandoned the stage after crashing with Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) with 23km to go. Carapaz ultimately crossed the line, over 15 minutes from Adam Yates. Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) along with other contenders Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) and Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious) are 22 seconds down overall.

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Tour de France 2023 route

The full 2023 Tour de France route was revealed at the official Tour de France presentation on 27th October .

The race starts across the border in the Basque Country, the first time the race has started there since 1992. A handful of hilly stages open the action before the race crosses the Pyrenees into France.

The route features only 22km of time trialling, all coming on the hilly stage 16. Four summit finishes also feature, including the Puy de Dôme for the first time in 35 years and the Grand Colombier in the Pyrenees.

The mountainous course brings a tough final week, concluding with a final showdown in the Vosges to Le Markstein on stage 20.

Tour de France 2023 contenders

2022 champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) will return to defend his title after dispatching two-time winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) last July. The Slovenian is racing after recovering from a fractured wrist in April, while Vingegaard starts off the back of the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Other big-name GC men lining up at the start in Bilbao include David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Enric Mas (Movistar), Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), Ben O'Connor (AG2R Citroën), Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), and Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious).

See: Tour de France 2023 – Analysing the contenders

Tour de France 2023 teams

The 2023 Tour de France will be made up of 22 teams, 18 WorldTour teams, the two top-ranked second-division teams, and two discretionary wild-card teams.

Lotto Soudal and TotalEnergies made the cut as the best ProTeams of 2022, while Israel-Premier Tech and Uno-X were chosen as the two wildcard teams for the 2023 Tour de France .

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Tour de france history.

Jonas Vingegaard is the reigning champion, having won his first Tour de France in 2022. The Danish rider denied Tadej Pogačar a trio of consecutive victories, the Slovenian having snatched the 2020 title before dominating the 2021 race. 

Pogačar himself broke a Ineos/Sky stranglehold on the race, with the British team having won seven of the previous eight Tours de France with Egan Bernal, Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins and four-time winner Chris Froome . Vincenzo Nibali, then riding for Astana, was the other man to break the British squad's dominance with a win in 2014.

The Tour wins record is currently held by four men, with Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Jacques Anquetil and Miguel Indurain all on five titles.

Peter Sagan getting once dominated the green jersey for the points classification but has been usurped in the past three years, with Wout van Aert establishing himself as the dominant man of all terrains in 2022. Sagan still holds the all-time green jersey record with seven wins in nine participations. Erik Zabel's six jerseys lie second, ahead of Sean Kelly's four.

In addition to his yellow jersey, Vingegaard won the polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification in 2022, as Pogačar did the previous two years.  Richard Virenque holds the record for polka dot jersey wins at seven, and it won't be beaten anytime soon as Pogačar and Rafał Majka are the only current riders to have won more than one king of the mountains title, with two.

Pogačar has won the white jersey for best young rider three years in a row and, at 24, is still eligible for a fourth crack in 2023.

Read on for a list of the riders with the most wins of the Tour de France, the most stage wins, as well as the major jerseys.

Most Tour de France overall wins

• 5 – Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain
• 4 –  Chris Froome
• 3 – Phiilippe Thys, Louison Bobet, Greg LeMond
• 2 – Lucien Petit-Breton, Firmin Lambot, Ottavio Bottecchia, Nicolas Frantz, André Leducq, Antonin Magne, Sylvère Maes, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Bernard Thévenet, Laurent Fignon, Alberto Contador, Tadej Pogačar
• 1 – Geraint Thomas , Egan Bernal , Jonas Vingegaard

Most Tour de France stage wins

• 34 – Eddy Merckx, Mark Cavendish
• 28 – Bernard Hinault
• 25 – André Leducq
• 22 – André Darrigade
• 20 – Nicolas Frantz
• 19 – François Faber
• 17 – Jean Alavoine
• 16 – Jacques Anquetiil, René Le Grevès, Charles Pélissiier ...
• 12 – Peter Sagan
• 11 – André Greipel
• 9 – Tadej Pogačar , Wout van Aert
• 7 – Chris Froome

Most Tour de France points classification/green jersey wins

• 7 –  Peter Sagan
• 6 – Erik Zabel
• 4 – Sean Kelly
• 3 – Jan Janssen, Eddy Merckx, Freddy Maertens, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Robbie McEwen
• 2 – Stan Ockers, Jean Graczyk, André Darrigade, Laurent Jalabert, Thor Hushovd, Mark Cavendish
• 1 – Michael Matthews , Sam Bennett , Wout van Aert

Most Tour de France polka dot jersey/mountains classification wins

• 7 – Richard Virenque
• 6 – Federico Bahamontes, Lucien Van Impe 
• 3 – Julio Jiménez
• 2 – Felicien Vervaecke, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Charly Gaul, Imerio Massignan, Eddy Merckx, Luis Herrera, Claudio Chiappucci, Laurent Jalabert, Michael Rasmussen, Rafał Majka , Tadej Pogačar
• 1 – Nairo Quintana , Chris Froome , Warren Barguil , Julian Alaphilippe , Romain Bardet , Jonas Vingegaard

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Tour de France Stage 15 Preview: No Rest for the Weary

Another stage, another difficult mountain stage to test the legs and possibly shake up the GC situation once again.

Stage 15 - Les Gets les Portes Du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc (179km) - Sunday, July 16

After Friday’s summit finish on the Grand Colombier and Saturday’s super-hard first day in the Alps, Stage 15 offers no rest for the weary with a 179km stage featuring five categorized climbs and a summit finish in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc.

Starting in Les Gets, the day begins rather gently, with a short descent down the valley as the race heads west toward Annecy. We expect the breakaway to have established itself by the top of the uncategorized Col des Fleuries (an ascent that looks harder than many of categorized climbs in this year’s Tour), about 40km into the stage.

The stage rolls along a bit more, passing through the intermediate sprint in Bluffy before hitting the first of the day’s five categorized climbs: the Category 1 Col de la Forclaz de Montmin (7.2km at 7.3%). It’s at this point that the stage really gets hard–and the cumulative effects of the Tour’s difficult second week will start to show.

Beginning with the uncategorized Col du Marais, the final 90km of the stage is all climbing and descending, with the Category 1 Col de la Croix Fry (11.3km at 7%) and the Category 3 Col des Aravis (4.4km at 5.8%) coming in close succession before a long ride back down to the base of the day’s final two ascents.

Look for Jumbo-Visma and UAE Team Emirates to put a rider or two in the breakaway so they have ability to call them back to help before the finale, especially on the long drag between Flumet and Megève, where having a teammate or two to help set the pace will keep Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) as fresh as possible for the finale.

The stage ends with essentially one climb that’s been categorized as two: the steep Category 2 Côte des Amerands (2.7km at 10.9%), then a super-brief downhill, and finally the steadier Category 1 climb to the finish line in Saint Gervais (7km at 7.7%). For the riders, it’s a terrible end to a vicious second week; for the fans, it’s a treat.

Riders to watch

Many of us got it wrong when it came to predicting Stage 14. While the composition of the breakaway was what we thought it would be, the escapees weren’t given the advantage that we expected, most likely because UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma wanted the bonus seconds available at the top of the Col de Joux Plane near the end of the stage.

But this is a longer stage and Stage 14 took a toll on everyone, so we’re fairly comfortable in predicting a breakaway to go the distance and fight for the stage win. If that’s the case, look for teams like Bahrain Victorious, Israel-PremierTech, Lidl-Trek, and Cofidis to be leading the way.

American Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) lost the polka dot jersey to Vingegaard by virtue of a tie-breaker on Stage 14, and he now faces a turning-point in his Tour. He can try and win back the jersey (which means he’ll need to hold-off both Vingegaard and Pogačar), or he can regroup and try and win a stage. He’ll be wearing the jersey again tomorrow–because Vingegaard’s wearing yellow–so keep an eye on Powless to see if he gives an indication as to what his plans might be.

Behind the breakaway, the GC fight will continue. Vingegaard, Pogačar, and their teams are so evenly matched at this point that it’s hard to say how things will play out. They're as close as they can be this late in the race, and unless one of them cracks considerably, they could head into the rest day–and then Tuesday’s individual time trial–still separated by only a handful of seconds.

And the battle for third overall has exploded thanks to the incredible performance of Spain’s Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers) on Stage 14. The 22-year-old is now just one second ahead of Australia’s Jai Hindley (BORA-hansgrohe) and will look to extend his lead with another strong ride on Sunday. Hindley, who crashed on Stage 14 and did well to limit his losses, needs to rebound if he wants to remain in the hunt for the Tour’s final podium spot.

When to Watch

The Tour’s been starting its Sunday stages a bit later in the afternoon (local time), which means you have time for a morning ride before catching the action. Tune-in around 11:45 a.m. EDT to watch the riders tackle the final two climbs, with the stage expected to conclude around 30 minutes later.

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Tour de France 2023: stage-by-stage guide to this year’s race

The Grand Départ will be in the Basque Country this year before crossing the Pyrenees and then heading across the Massif Central

Stage 1, Saturday 1 July: Bilbao-Bilbao, 182km

The Tour starts in Spain’s foremost cycling heartland, with a stage through the Basque Country hills which will give many the jitters. Four stiff ascents in the final 80km with the Côte de Pike less than 10km from the line means an initial sort-out of the field; at least one favourite could lose the race here. The finish is made for Julian Alaphilippe, so France will expect a win and yellow jersey.

Stage 2, Sunday 2 July: Vitoria Gasteiz-San Sebastián, 209km

More straightforward but still hillier than most early Tour stages, with the Alto de Jaizkibel 16km from the finish; this 8km drag is well known to cycling fans as the key point in the San Sebastián Classic. It will shred the field, so a select group should contest the finish, suiting all rounders such as Wout van Aert or Magnus Cort. For the favourites, it’s about limiting any time loss.

Stage 3, Monday 3 July: Amorebieta-Bayonne, 187.4km

Finally, something resembling a normal stage for the Tour’s opening week. There are several nasty little Basque Country climbs but they come early in the stage and the run-out is downhill. So it’s bunch sprint time, which means British eyes will be on Mark Cavendish, although the chances are it will be last year’s sprint star, Fabio Jakobsen, in the spotlight.

Stage 4, Tuesday 4 July: Dax-Nogaro, 181.8km

Even flatter than Monday, so another bunch sprint day; for the overall contenders it’s again about staying upright. A north wind may liven things up, but it’s more likely to be a slog through the heat before Cavendish, Jakobsen, Caleb Ewan, Dylan Groenewegen and company fight it out. Big question: will Jumbo-Visma let Van Aert join in, or will he save his strength to support Jonas Vingegaard when the race enters the Pyrenees?

Stage 5, Wednesday July 5: Pau-Laruns, 163km

Two super-steep and gratingly long climbs in the Pyrenees will give a real idea of who is in for the win. It’s 44 years since the Tour has had ascents this severe this early in the race, and there could be as few as a dozen riders in the hunt at the finish. A fast-finishing climber who can descend fast will win this stage, someone of the calibre of Matej Mohoric.

Stage 6, Thursday 6 July: Tarbes-Cauterets, 145km

Day two in the Pyrenees with the Col du Tourmalet on the menu before a long, draggy uphill finish. The chances are the contenders who made the grade yesterday will watch each other and probe for any signs of weakness, while a break settles the stage, with pure climbers targeting the win and the King of the Mountains jersey: Giulio Ciccone perhaps, or Neilson Powless.

Stage 7, Friday 7 July: Mont de Marsan-Bordeaux, 170km

A complete contrast: pancake flat and probably grimly hot. Bordeaux used to be a classic sprinter’s finish when the race made regular visits, and this will be a throwback to those days. So it’s the same cast as in Nogaro, minus anyone who’s fallen foul of the mountains. This could be Cavendish’s third chance to eclipse Eddy Merckx’s stage win record and by now it will be clear just how tough an ask this will be.

Stage 8, Saturday 8 July: Libourne-Limoges, 201km

A second bunch sprint on paper, but there’s a twist: this is a long stage, and the final 70km offer little respite, being constantly up and down. It will be a tough one to control, so teams without sprinters will fancy their chances in a break. The tough finale favours a strongman such as Mathieu van der Poel or his Alpecin–Deceuninck teammate Søren Kragh Andersen.

Stage 9, Sunday 9 July: St Léonard de Noblat-Le Puy de Dôme, 182.5km

A stage devoted to the memory of France’s favourite racer, the late Raymond Poulidor, starting in his home town and finishing on the extinct volcano that was the site of his greatest exploit. The finish climb is back after 35 years’ absence and its insanely steep final 4km will force Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar to show precisely how strong they are. Expect a major reshuffle in the standings.

Stage 10, Tuesday 11 July: Vulcania-Issoire, 167km

After a rest day in Clermont-Ferrand, this is a day for the break to contest a stage through sumptuous scenery. The battle on the climb at the start will be intense and a downhill finish means the final four-mile ascent could see drama aplenty, while there is barely a flat stretch of road in between. This stage will be a target for Alaphilippe, Cort or other stage hunters such as Richard Carapaz or Daniel Martínez .

Stage 11, Wednesday 12 July: Clermont Ferrand-Moulins, 180km

A bunch sprint for sure, simply because with so few opportunities the sprinters won’t want to let this one get away. A break will go with riders looking for television time, but they won’t stand a chance. The question here is: which sprinters have survived the Massif Central, and which teams have any firepower left? One thing is certain: we won’t see another mass finish for at least eight days.

Stage 12, Thursday 13 July: Roanne-Belleville en Beaujolais, 169km

This is the sort of stage the Tour organiser, Christian Prudhomme, loves, peppered with medium-difficulty climbs where anything can happen. Stage hunters such as Alaphilippe, Cort and company will love it, and overall contenders who have flopped thus far will see a chance for redemption. But for a team trying to control the race, it will be a nightmare in the Beaujolais vineyards. For fans, it could be grand cru .

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Stage 13, Friday 14 July: Châtillon sur Chalaronne-Grand Colombier, 138km

A very simple stage, with a big (non-classified) climb mid-stage to whittle the field down, and a brutal climb to the finish for Pogacar, Vingegaard and any remaining rivals such as – perhaps – Tom Pidcock to do battle. The finish is a 17km ascent.

Stage 14, Saturday 15 July: Annemasse-Morzine, 152km

The stage 14 battleground, the Col de Joux Plane, is long, and steep, with the final 6km all about 10%; it’s followed by one of the Tour’s trickiest descents to the finish. With climbing right from the start, the break will go early and may well contest the finish. A good chance for riders such as Mikel Landa, but the final descent has Pidcock written all over it.

Stage 15, Sunday 16 July: Les Gets-Saint Gervais Mont Blanc, 179km

Again there is climbing all day; four classified climbs and several unclassified ones, before an uphill finish where France’s Romain Bardet won in 2016, and where most of the damage will be done on the initial kilometres to Les Amerands, where the gradient reaches 18%. David Gaudu is the rider French fans will expect to emulate Bardet, but if the overall contenders get involved that will be a big ask.

Stage 16, Tuesday 18 July: Passy-Combloux, 22.4km ITT

After the second rest day, a time trial! Once a Tour staple, now a relative rarity. This one is short enough that it won’t upset the applecart, but there’s a twist in its flattish route: a short, sharp pull up the Côte de Domancy, or Route Bernard Hinault, where “the Badger” won the 1980 world title. Another reminder that Hinault remains the last French Tour winner, back in 1985. That’s unlikely to change this year.

Stage 17, Wednesday 19 July: Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc-Courchevel, 166km

The final Alpine stage ends over the longest climb of the week, the 28km Col de la Loze, with an unremitting final 6km topping out at 24%, and after the descent into Courchevel there’s a short, stiff pull to the finish line. If an early break gains ground watch out for pure climbers such as Pello Bilbao, otherwise it’s all about Vingegaard and Pogacar, who between them won four mountain stages last year.

Stage 18, Thursday 20 July: Moûtiers-Bourg-en-Bresse, 185km

A long flat run out of the Alps offers respite after the mountains. On paper this is a bunch sprint, but that depends on which sprinters have survived and what state their teammates are in. Last year the Belgian Jasper Philipsen was the pick of the sprinters in the second half of the Tour; if he and his teammate Van der Poel are in form, look no further.

Stage 19, Friday 21 July: Moirans-en-Montagne-Poligny, 173km

Another flat stage, this time out of the Jura and into the Doubs. This should be another bunch sprint, but there’s a stiff little climb 26km out, which could well put the riders who are left in the sprinters’ teams seriously off their stride. So perhaps a reduced bunch sprint for a seasoned warhorse such as Mads Pedersen.

Stage 20, Saturday 22 July: Belfort-Le Markstein Fellering, 133.5km

A final mountain stage where the organisers will hope for a conclusive showdown between, ideally, Pogacar and Vingegaard. Given this isn’t a million miles from the home of the French chouchou Thibaut Pinot, the home fans and media will be dreaming up a perfect exit for the three-time stage winner in his final Tour over six of the best passes the Vosges can offer.

Stage 21, Sunday 23 July: Saint Quentin en Yvelines-Paris Champs Élysées, 115km

A hint of the Paris 2024 Games with a start at the national velodrome before the run-in to the finish on the Champs Élysées, where the sprinters can strut their stuff. This is the last time we will see the Tour here for a couple of years, as next year’s Olympics mean the finish moves to Nice and a final time trial, the first time the Tour has finished outside the capital since 1905.

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Tour de France 2023 : paysages de carte postale, ambiance folle et accident avec un spectateur, cinq infos à retenir de cette 15e étape

Deuxième journée en Haute-Savoie pour le Tour de France 2023. Ce dimanche 16 juillet, les coureurs ont évolué dans des paysages grandioses. Mais derrière la carte postale et une ambiance des grands jours, la course s'est encore durcie avec les fortes chaleurs et les différentes ascensions mythiques.

Les étapes de ce Tour de France 2023 se succèdent et sont toujours aussi animées. Ce dimanche 16 juillet, pour leur deuxième journée en Haute-Savoie, les coureurs de la Grande Boucle ont de nouveau souffert dans des ascensions mythiques. Avec la chaleur et la ferveur des Alpes, cette 15e étape entre Les Gets et Saint-Gervais a réservé son lot de surprises. Voici tout ce qu'il faut retenir de cette journée.

L'histoire du jour

Steve Rooney a enlevé ses chaussures de cyclisme, a vissé la casquette sur la tête et a disposé une serviette sur le bitume chaud du col de la Forclaz. Cet Australien est arrivé bien en avance pour assister au passage des coureurs dans la première difficulté de la journée. Mais la longue attente n'entame en rien son enthousiasme. "Tous les ans, je fais ce col. J'adore cet endroit, j'adore le Tour. L'ambiance est géniale. Il y a toujours des sourires sur les visages et on rencontre tous les pays" , explique cet expatrié en Suisse.

Ce dimanche, le quinquagénaire au large sourire est venu accompagné de son équipe de cyclisme amateur au sommet du col de la Forclaz, un lieu bien connu des Annéciens. En temps normal, l'endroit est surtout prisé des parapentistes et randonneurs. Mais ce dimanche, il est le lieu de toutes les passions. Une marée humaine a fait les quelques kilomètres qui séparent Annecy du col pour voir passer le Tour de France.

Les quelques commerces de restauration sont pris d'assaut et certains touristes s'empressent de prendre des photos sur le belvédère. Le point de vue donne sur le lac, la réserve naturelle du roc de Chère et le château de Duingt qui plonge dans des eaux bleu clair. "C'est déjà magnifique en temps normal. Mais les circonstances du jour font que cet endroit est encore plus beau avec toute cette ferveur" , résume à juste mot Mathilde, une trentaine d'années, téléphone à la main pour prendre quelques clichés.

Son activité est rapidement interrompue par le passage de la caravane publicitaire. Les centaines de spectateurs s'empressent sur le bord de la route. La gendarmerie peine à canaliser la foule. Un peu plus bas, Yann, Thomas et tous leurs amis ont fait le déplacement depuis Alex, une petite commune sur le chemin des Aravis. "On est ici pour le lac. On est ici pour le soleil. On est ici pour les amis et on est ici pour le Tour" , explique Yann, la voix déjà bien éprouvée. "Les gens sont 'incroyaux' (sic) . L'ambiance est folle" , poursuit-il, bouteille de bière à la main, avant d'encourager les derniers coureurs distancés par le peloton.

Outre ce col de la Forclaz, le tracé du jour a emprunté ce dimanche les plus belles routes de la Haute-Savoie : la montée du col de la Croix Fry, en passant par le village de La Clusaz, l'ascension du col des Aravis avec le mont Blanc en toile de fond ou encore l'arrivée à Saint-Gervais... Les Alpes ont pour habitude d'offrir des paysages magnifiques aux coureurs et spectateurs de la Grande Boucle. Cette journée ensoleillée n'a pas dérogé à la règle.

Le fait du jour

L'affluence du public sur les routes de la Haute-Savoie a provoqué un important accident en début d'étape. Dans une ligne droite peu après 50 km, Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) a percuté le bras d'un spectateur sur la droite de la chaussée.

Kuss a entraîné plusieurs coureurs du peloton dans sa chute, dont son coéquipier Nathan van Hooydonck. Les favoris du Tour, Jonas Vingegaard et Tadej Pogacar, étaient à proximité de l'accident mais ont réussi à rester sur leur vélo.

Aucun coureur n'a abandonné après ce fait de course. Mais l'étape de la veille avait déjà été marquée par une chute massive , qui avait entraîné les abandons de plusieurs coureurs.

Le gagnant du jour

Inattendu, Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious) s'est imposé en solitaire ce dimanche à Saint-Gervais , après avoir lancé une attaque dès les premiers kilomètres de la dernière difficulté du jour, la côte des Amerands. Le Hollandais de 35 ans a ainsi remporté la plus prestigieuse victoire de sa carrière. Il n'avait jusque-là gagné qu'une étape lors d'un grand Tour, lors de la Vuelta en 2011.

L'image du jour

Après plus de deux semaines de course, les favoris du Tour, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) et Tadej Pogacar (UAE-Emirates) continuent d'entretenir le suspense. Les deux monstres se tiennent toujours en une dizaine de secondes. Ce dimanche, malgré les attaques tardives du Slovène, ils ont franchi la ligne d'arrivée ensemble. Statu quo au classement général : le Danois de la Jumbo-Visma conserve son maillot jaune avant le contre-la-montre de mardi.

Le chiffre du jour

18 . Dans la côte des Amerands, dernière difficulté du jour, certains pourcentages de côte ont frôlé les 18 %. Le coureur hollandais Wout Poels a profité de ce "mur" pour lancer une attaque en tête de course et distancer Wout Van Aert. Une attaque solide pour une première victoire sur le Tour de France.

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Le Tour de France n’a pas de secrets pour vous et vous le suivez tous les ans ? Pour cette édition 2023 de la Grande Boucle, nous vous proposons 3 circuits pour suivre les étapes de Haute-Savoie , en fonction de votre budget.

Notre circuit petit budget

Suivre le Tour de France ou une partie de celui-ci, c’est oui. Mais cela peut vite revenir cher. Nous vous proposons donc un petit circuit qui suivra les différentes étapes de Haute-Savoie pour les petits budgets, avec des haltes dans les campings du département.

L’Horizon Bleu de Cluses pour première étape

Vous pourrez aussi bien décider de planter la tente que de louer un Mobil home. L’emplacement du camping vous offrira aussi la possibilité de rejoindre rapidement la haute vallée de l’Arve, où se dérouleront plusieurs étapes, dont le contre-la-montre reliant Passy à Combloux .

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Les campings de Passy comme seconde étape

Dès la 15e étape de la Grande Boucle reliant Les Gets à Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc , nous vous recommandons de prendre la direction des campings situés à Passy et d’y rester jusqu’au mercredi 19 juillet, jour de l’étape 17 et dernière passant en Haute-Savoie.

Si vous appréciez la marche, nous vous recommandons même de vous rendre jusqu’à la côte Bernard Hinault à pied, afin de profiter du contre-la-montre sans avoir à vous soucier du problème du stationnement.

Voir les disponibilités du camping des Iles

Pour la petite astuce, il n’est pas rare que des particuliers proposent des locations d’emplacements dans leurs champs dans la montée de Domancy lors du passage du Tour de France. Un bon moyen de faire quelques économies supplémentaires et d’être en pôle position lors du passage des coureurs ! Mais attention, si ça n’était pas le cas, veillez à ne pas vous installer dans un champ sans autorisation.

Voir les disponibilités au camping de l’Écureuil

Suivre le Tour de France avec un budget modéré

Si vous avez maintenant un budget modéré et que vous souhaitez suivre le Tour de France en dormant dans des hôtels ou des locations , voici une petite sélection d’hébergements faits pour vous et vous permettant de rayonner sur les étapes se déroulant en Haute-Savoie du 15 au 19 juillet 2023.

Heyday Chalet, Montriond

Un deux en un plutôt pratique, qui vous laissera également le temps de rejoindre le pays du Mont-Blanc avant l’arrivée du Tour de France dans le Mont-Blanc. Idéal pour les budgets modérés, puisqu’il faut compter à partir de 66€ par nuit en fonction de la période de réservation.

Hôtel Arbois Bettex à Saint-Gervais

À partir de 89€ par nuit , en fonction de la période.

Notez aussi que l’arrivée de la 15e étape est prévue au Bettex. Vous pourrez donc profiter des sentiers de randonnée le matin et assister à la fin de la course sans avoir à reprendre votre voiture aux alentours de 16h30. Dans la même lignée, vous pourrez facilement emprunter les télécabines pour redescendre dans le centre et assister au départ de la 17e étape. Seule l’étape contre-la-montre vous obligera à reprendre votre véhicule pour rejoindre Combloux.

Un circuit pour les grands budgets

Enfin, nous vous proposons un circuit pour les personnes appréciant les hôtels de charme et de luxe. Un bon moyen de décompresser totalement en attendant le passage des coureurs de la Grande Boucle.

L’hôtel Spa Crychar des Gets pour un premier arrêt

La première étape de ce circuit se fera à l’hôtel Spa Crychar, du côté des Gets. Vous pourrez ainsi assister à l’arrivée de l’étape Annemasse > Morzine et pourrez profiter du village une fois que les coureurs auront réalisé leur dernier kilomètre de la journée et que le podium sera effectué. Morzine peut être rejoint en seulement 30 minutes depuis Les Gets

D’autre part, le Crychar, établissement 4 étoiles, vous permettra d’assister au départ de la 15e étape du Tour de France sans que vous n’ayez à reprendre votre voiture. Il vous suffira de descendre dans les rues du village pour 11 heures.

L’Armancette Hôtel de Saint Gervais comme second arrêt

Ce 5 étoiles vous permettra de suivre les étapes se déroulant dans le pays du Mont-Blanc, à savoir :

• Les Gets > Saint-Gervais
• Passy > Combloux
• Saint-Gervais > Courchevel
• Haute-Savoie

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Stage 15 Tour de France 2023

Stage 14 | Stage 15 | Stage 16

Stage 15 of the Tour de France 2023 is a 179km mountain stage from Les Gets-Portes du Soleil to Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc.

The climbs include the Col de la Forclaz Montmin and the Col de la Croix Fry. The stage ends with an ascent of the Côte des Amerands, swiftly followed by the climb to Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc Le Bettex and the finish line.

Stage 15 is likely to be important to the General Classification - an opportunity for the overall contenders to take time on their rivals. Vingegaard might try to crack Pogacar on the final climb.

Stage 15 Tour de France 2023: Highlights and Blog

These are video highlights of Stage 15 Tour de France 2023.

This is the Stage 15 TDF2023 Blog .

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Stage 15 Tour de France 2023: Race Details

Stage 15 tour de france 2023: poll.

This is a poll where you can vote for some of the main contenders to win Stage 15.

Stage 15 Tour de France 2023: Map & Stage Profile

This is a map of the route of Stage 15, Tour de France 2023.

This is a zoom-able map of the route of Stage 15 of the 2023 Tour de France.

This is the profile of Stage 15 Tour de France 2023.

Stage 15 Tour de France 2023: Timings

Stage 15 tour de france 2023: videos.

This is a video overview of the route of Stage 15.

Stage 19 Tour de France 2016

Stage 15 of the 2023 Tour de France has echoes of Stage 19 of the 2016 edition of the race.

In 2016, the race also climbed the Col de la Forclaz Montmin, and also finished at Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc Le Bettex. Romain Bardet won that day.

Food and Drink to Go with Stage 15 Tour de France 2023

The Tour de France is still in the Alps today, so this is the land of Savoyarde specialities - fondue, raclette, pierrade and tartiflette.

Raclette involves a big wheel of cheese and an apparatus with a heating element. The element melts the top layer of cheese, and you scrape the melted cheese off ( racler , to scrape) and eat it with potatoes, charcuterie and salad.

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Stage 15 Tour de France 2023: Route Notes

Stage 15 starts in Les Gets (départ fictif ), which is part of the Portes du Soleil ski area.

Les Gets is a ski resort on the col between Taninges and Morzine. The first (single person) chair lift was installed in 1938.

As well as skiing in Winter, Les Gets offers mountain biking in Summer. The downhill run on Mont Chéry has been used for lots of Mountain Bike World Cup events, and one World Championships.

There's also a golf course.

Les Gets has a Museum of Mechanical Music, and hosts a Festival of Mechanical Music every two years. If you go, make sure you deal with the organ-grinder not the monkey.

There's quite a long neutralised section leaving Les Gets and heading SW to Taninges on the D902. The flag goes down and the racing starts still on the D902 leaving Taninges ( départ réel ).

The riders pedal via Châtillon-sur-Cluses to Cluses.

Cluses is a town in the Arve valley. Cluse means narrow valley. A bridge was built here in the Roman era, and a village sprang up by it because of the trade that travellers brought.

Clock-making was introduced to Cluses in 1720, with a cottage industry supplying Geneva. In 1848 the Ecole Royale d'Horlogerie was founded, and clock manufacture became a mainstay of the Arve valley.

For many years Cluses was the HQ of the Mitchell Reel company, supplying reels for fishing rods.

Stage 15 continues in the Arve valley from Cluses via Bonneville to La Roche-sur-Foron.

La Roche-sur-Foron

La Roche-sur-Foron is part of the Grand Genève transborder agglomeration. The roche was one on which the Counts of Geneva built a castle, around 1120. The Genevois was sold to Savoie in 1401, and in 1860 Savoie became part of France.

From La Roche-sur-Foron, the climb of the Col des Fleuries (920m, uncategorised) begins. The riders descend to Thorens-Glières on the other side of the col.

Francois de Sales was born in the château at Thorens-Glières; he was later Bishop of Annecy. Cavour - Prime Minister of Piedmont and instrumental in unifying Italy in 1860 - holidayed here.

There's a short ascent from Thorens-Glières, then a descent brings the race to the edge of Annecy , just grazing the suburb of Annecy-le-Vieux.

There will certainly be helicopter shots of Lake Annecy.

Lake Annecy

Lake Annecy (le Lac d'Annecy, or 'le lac bleu') is 14.6km long, and has a circumference of around 38km. It's not the biggest lake in France, as it's smaller than the Lac du Bourget, but it's the most beautiful.

The lake formed about 30,000 years ago, at a time when great Alpine glaciers were melting.

The lake is supplied with water by seven streams, and by a powerful underwater spring called the Boubioz. Water runs out of the north end of the lake, into the Thiou, which becomes the Fier, which in turn flows into the Rhone. It takes 4 years for all the water in the lake to be replaced.

The average depth of Lake Annecy is 41.5m, and it's 81m down to the deepest point. The water temperature gets up to 22C in July.

The lake narrows to 800m between Talloires and Duingt. To the north of that point is what's known as the Grand Lac, which has shallower shores dotted with villages and vineyards; to the south is the Petit Lac, with steep, wooded slopes.

In the 1950s, Lake Annecy became quite polluted, particularly from sewage from the surrounding hotels. A decision was made to treat all sewage properly, and in 1957, a filtering plant was built at Cran. This helped the lake water to regain its purity, and over the space of 20 years, the depth of visibility increased from 4.6 to 8m. The level of nitrates in the lake water is particularly low.

Activities on and in the lake include boating, rowing, sailing, swimming, fishing, diving, windsurfing, and water skiing. The Fête du Lac , with fireworks, takes place on the first Saturday in August.

Mark Twain wrote of Lake Annecy:

'It is a revelation. It is a miracle. It brings the tears to a body's eyes it is so enchanting. That is to say, it affects you just as all things that you instantly recognize as perfect affect you - perfect music, perfect eloquence, perfect art, perfect joy, perfect grief. It stretches itself out there in the caressing sunlight, and away towards its border of majestic mountains, a crisped and radiant plain of water of the divinest blue that can be imagined. All the blues are there, from the faintest shoal water suggestion of the color, detectable only in the shadow of some overhanging object, all the way through, a little blue and a little bluer still, and again a shade bluer till you strike the deep, rich Mediterranean splendor which breaks the heart in your bosom, it is so beautiful.'

'And the mountains, as you skim along on the steamboat, how stately their forms, how noble their proportions, how green their velvet slopes, how soft the mottlings of sun and shadow that play about the rocky ramparts that crown them, how opaline the vast upheavals of snow banked against the sky in the remoteness beyond - Mont Blanc and others - how shall anybody describe? Why, not even a painter can quite do it, and the most the pen can do is to suggest.'

From Annecy-le-Vieux, Stage 15 takes the D16 through the Défilé de Dingy, then the D909 up and over the Col de Bluffy (638m).

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Intermediate Sprint

The Col de Bluffy is today's intermediate sprint point.

Instead of continuing past the Château to Menthon-Saint-Bernard on the lake shore, the riders fork off the D909 on the route de Bluffy.

The road traverses the hillside, with the Lac d'Annecy/ Talloires to the riders' right. On the D42 the race passes the Ermitage Saint-Germain.

The Ermitage Saint-Germain is pictured above, with the Dents de Lanfon mountains behind. It is a church on the approximate site of the cave inhabited by Germain de Talloires, the first prior of the Abbey of Talloires, who lived as a hermit in the cave from 1033 to 1060.

Next away to the left after the Dents de Lanfon is La Tournette (2,351m).

Col de la Forclaz de Montmin (Category 1)

The D42 continues steeply up to the Col de la Forclaz de Montmin.

Savoie Mont Blanc's website says of the Col de la Forclaz de Montmin:

'The Col de la Forclaz is as renowned for its difficulty as for the views overlooking Lake Annecy. What's more, its summit is often covered by a cloud of multi-coloured hang gliders and parapentes.'

The climbis 7.2km at an average gradient of 7.3%, and the route rises to 1,157m at the top of the Col de la Forclaz after82.8km raced.

What does 'Forclaz' mean in Col de la Forclaz?

The 2016 Tour de France went over three Cols de la Forclaz altogether - one on Stage 17 in Switzerland and two on Stage 19 in France.

According to Charles Marteaux in his 1918 essay on the etymology of the names of some Savoyard places, forclia or forclaz is a Savoyard dialect word which comes from the Latin furcula , meaning small fork. It signifies a passage which is quite wide to start with, and which then narrows, making a Y-shape. Forclaz can also mean two routes which join up in the mountains, forming a V.

At the top of the col there's a little ski resort called Montmin-Col de la Forclaz , with two draglifts and five pistes, which is open in winter. There's also a parapente take-off site at the Col de la Forclaz , which hosted parapente World Cup events in 2004, 2009, and 2012.

The descent of the Col de la Forclaz de Montmin is steep - a gradient of 13% in places. The road goes through the village of Montmin, and gets back down to the valley at the village of Vesonne.

From Vesonne the riders continue via La Balmette to Faverges . Next the D12 takes them through Saint-Ferréol and up to the Col du Marais (840m, uncategorised).

There's a slight descent from the Col du Marais to Thônes (601m).

At Thônes the categorised climb of the Col de la Croix Fry (Category 1) starts.

Col de la Croix Fry (Category 1)

The D16 heads up through Manigod to the Col de la Croix Fry. According to Alpine Cols, the second part of the climb is tougher than the first.

'After Manigod, you are treated to 2km at over 9%, before the road relents a little, varying between 6% and 8% all the way to the welcome café at the summit.'

Alpine Cols also have a 12-minute video of the climb .

The Tour de France organisers have this col as 11.3km at 7% average gradient. The height at the top is 1,477m, reached after 124.5km raced.

The Col de la Croix Fry is adjacent to the Massif de Manigod, part of the La Clusaz ski area - shown at the top right of the La Clusaz piste map .

The descent from the Col de la Croix Fry on the D16 is to the outskirts of La Clusaz .

Col des Aravis (Category 3)

Now Stage 15 takes the D909 up to the Col des Aravis.

The Col des Aravis is 4.4km at an average 5.8% to a height of 1,487m. The top comes after 133.3km raced.

The descent from the Col des Aravis has a lot of hairpin bends. Then the road is straighter in the Gorges de l'Arondine to Flumet. Here, the race joins D1212 in the Val d'Arly.

The D1212 is fairly flat through Praz-sur-Arly.

Praz-sur-Arly

Praz is a Savoyard variant of prés - meadows; the Arly is the river that flows here, and the root of the name is ar , running water, and ly , height.

The inhabitants of Praz-sur-Arly are called Pralins.

The first farms here appeared in the C14th. The church, of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, dates from 1881.

Praz-sur-Arly has a ski resort , which is part of the Espace Diamant. It's also a well-known place for dog-sledding. (I think that's people on sleds being pulled along by dogs, not dogs going downhill on sledges).

There's an international hot air balloon event, les Montgolfiades de Praz-sur-Arly .

On the D1212 some of the shops have wooden carvings of bears outside.

It's about 5km from Praz-sur-Arly to Megève .

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Beyond Megève is Demi-Quartier, then the road descends through Combloux .

The riders will turn right down the Côte de Domancy (D199).

This was the scene of one of Bernard Hinault's triumphs, where he dropped Baronchelli and went on to a solo victory in the 1980 World Championships road race.

The Côte de Domancy also featured as a climb on the ITT on Stage 18 of the 2016 Tour de France ; and it will be on the ITT on Stage 16 of the 2023 Tour de France .

From Domancy, the race takes the D1205 for a short distance along the Arve valley to Vervex, then it turns up to the right to begin the final climbs.

The Final Climbs in St-Gervais-Mont-Blanc

The final climbs are the Côte des Amerands and the Montée du Bettex.

Côte des Amerands (Category 2)

From Vervex, the race goes up the route de Lardin, by the ruisseau de Vervex, to the hamlet of Les Amerands. The climb is 2.7km at an average 10.9% to the top at a height of 888m at the junction with the D909 after 170.6km raced.

Now the riders turn right on the D909 to Saint-Gervais, going over the Viaduc de Saint-Gervais.

Then it's right past the Tourist Office, right again over the Pont du Diable, and left up the rue de Mont Joly.

Montée du Bettex (Category 1)

The riders turn left up the route d'Orsin/route du Bettex for the final 7.5km - the Montée du Bettex.

The climb is 7km at an average 7.7% gradient to the finish at 1,372m at Le Bettex, a ski village on the edge of St-Gervais Mont Blanc .

Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc

St-Gervais is the highest Commune in France and in Europe, since the summit of Mont Blanc is within its territory (although the Italians on the other side of the mountain dispute this).

The town is referred to as St-Gervais-les-Bains, or St-Gervais-Mont-Blanc. The stream or torrent running down le Val Montjoie and through St-Gervais is called le Bon Nant. The inhabitants are called St-Gervolains.

The St Gervais after whom the town is named was a Christian who was martyred together with his twin brother Protais in the reign of the Roman Emporer Nero.

Val Montjoie has been inhabited since Neolithic times. A Celtic people called the Ceutrons lived here immediately before the arrival of the Romans in the C1st AD. Val Montjoie became part of Savoie in 1355.

Hot springs were discovered at Le Fayet in 1806, and St-Gervais subsequently developed as a spa town. It is still popular with valetudinarians seeking a cure, and in 2011, a new spa area called 'les Bains du Mont Blanc' was opened.

The most popular route to the top of Mont Blanc (4810m) is from St-Gervais, on the Tramway du Mont Blanc to the Nid d'Aigle, then to the Dôme du Goûter and past the Vallot cabin and the Arête des Bosses. The route up Mont Blanc from St-Gervais is called the Voie des Cristalliers, or the Voie Royale.

Marie Paradis, the first woman to reach the summit of Mont Blanc (1808) was from St-Gervais.

St-Gervais is a ski resort , with skiing on the Mont d'Arbois, and le Prarion.

There's bungee jumping from the St-Gervais viaduct , with a 65m fall into the Gorges du Bonnant.

Stage 15 Tour de France 2023: the Favourites

Stage 15 of the Tour de France 2023 is a race for climbers, but the descent of the Côte de Domancy could also provide an opportunity for a good descender to steal a march on his rivals before the two final climbs.

Romain Bardet won at Le Bettex in 2016. Now riding for DSM, could he roll back the years and do it again?

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Beaujolais Wines

Beaujolais is a wine made with Gamay grapes in the Beaujolais region . The region gets its name from the town and Lords of Beaujeu.

Gamay grapes are thin-skinned and low in tannins. They make light wines with relatively high acidity.

The Romans were the first to plant vines here, along their trading route up the Saône valley. Later, Benedictine monks did much of the wine-making.

Beaujolais Nouveau became very popular in the 1980s, with easy-drinking, fruity wines. In the late 1990s that popularity faded, and Beaujolais producers are now concentrating on more complex wines that are aged longer in oak barrels.

Fleurie is called the Queen of Beaujolais. It has floral notes, and aromas of blueberries and red fruits.

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Fleurie vineyards are on the west side of the Saône valley, facing south or south east. The soil is on pink granite, and is sandy higher up, with more clay content lower down.

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Annecy is a historic town on the shore of Lake Annecy, in the Haute Savoie département of France. It has a population of about 52,000. It is sometimes called 'the Venice of the Alps', because two canals and the little river Thiou run through it.

There was a Roman settlement at what is now the adjacent town of Annecy-le-Vieux (not to be confused with the historic centre of Annecy, known as Vieil Annecy).

Annecy was one of the residences of the Counts of Geneva from the C10th. It passed to the counts of Savoy in 1401.

When the Protestant faith spread through the region, Annecy was a centre of the Catholic counter-Reformation. The old Bishopric of Geneva was transferred to Annecy in 1535. Francois de Sales was a celebrated bishop of Annecy from 1602 to 1622.

At the time of the French Revolution, Annecy was conquered and became part of France. It was returned to the House of Savoy after the defeat of Napoleon (1815), then became part of France for good under Napoleon III in 1860.

One of the historic buildings in the centre of Annecy is the Palais de l'Isle . It is a Medieval building which dates from around 1325, and has served as a fortress, a prison, a courthouse, and a mint. Today, it houses a local history museum.

Parts of the Château d'Annecy (in particular la Tour de la Reine) date from the 1200s. The château was the home of the Counts of Geneva, and now houses l'Observatoire Régional des Lacs Alpins (Regional Observatory of Alpine Lakes).

In the 1800s, Annecy manufactured linen, glass, cutlery, and leather. Later, paper was also made here, there was a bell foundry at Annecy-le-Vieux, and Salomon skis had a factory near the lake.

Today, tourism and services are the largest part of the local economy.

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Menthon-Saint-Bernard

Menthon-Saint-Bernard is a little town on the shore of Lake Annecy, just north of the Roc de Chère, and at the foot of the dents de Lanfon.

This area was in the territory of the Allobroges people, before the Romans arrived in the C2nd BC.

Saint Bernard of Menthon was born in the château here, around 923. He is famous for founding the hospices which served as refuges for travellers over the Grand and Petit Saint-Bernard passes. The dogs, which were used by the canons who ran the hospices to search for travellers lost in the snow, take their name from Bernard of Menthon. They are Saint-Bernard dogs.

The current Menthon family arrived here from Bourgogne around 1190. They are still owners of the château, which dates from the C13th. (It replaced an earlier castle).

Talloires is on the east side of Lake Annecy, below the rocky peaks of the Dents de Lanfon.

The origin of the name Talloires is unknown, but the settlement is first mentioned in documents in the 800s. In 1018, it was given by Rudolph III of Burgundy to the monks of Savigny. The first prior of the Abbey, Germain de Talloires, lived as a hermit from 1033 to 1060, in a cave above the town. The Ermitage de St Germain is built on the approximate site of the cave.

The Abbey buildings were burned by French Revolutionaries in 1792, and later rebuilt. L'Abbaye is now a hotel, which has hosted a number of well-known guests including Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Richard Nixon. Twain said of the two women who had the Abbey then, 'They fed us well, they slept us well, and I wish I could have staid there a few years and got a solid rest.'

The chemist Claude Louis Berthollet (1748-1822) was born in Talloires. He discovered the composition of bleach.

Paul Cézanne painted Le Lac Bleu at Talloires. The work is in the Cortauld Institute in London.

Faverges is between the Chaine des Aravis (to the north east) and the Massif des Bauges (to the south west). Immediately east of Faverges is the Dent de Cons (2064m). The Torrent de St Ruph runs down to Faverges. It becomes l'Eau Morte as it flows towards Doussard, Bout du Lac, and le Lac d'Annecy.

The name Faverges comes from the Latin fabrica . It dates from the C12th, and refers to a forge, factory, or workshop.

Before the Romans, the location belonged to the Celtic Allobroges tribe. The Romans appeared in the area in the C2nd BC, and Faverges was on the Roman route from Turin to Geneva. There was accommodation for travellers with baths (which have been excavated) at the mansio Casuaria , on the site of the present-day village of Viuz, on the edge of Faverges. Viuz comes from the Latin vicus , meaning a small town. 

In the Middle Ages, Faverges belonged to Geneva, then from 1316, to the House of Savoie. Its chateau dates from the C13th. It was annexed by French Revolutionary troops in 1792. Faverges was returned to Savoie after Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat in 1814. It became part of France again in 1860, when Savoie was annexed by French Emporer Napoleon III.

Faverges has an industrial heritage dating back to the Middle Ages, with iron, copper, and cutlery manufacture in the C14th. Later, there were tanneries and paper mills, and cotton and silk production.

Industries in Faverges today include making prefabricated wooden chalets, mechanical engineering (Staubli), household appliances, and luxury goods (S T Dupont).

Thônes is a town at the junction between the Nom and Fier valleys.

It developed as an agricultural centre, with fairs and markets held from the 1300s. It was known for its resistance during World War II, especially from May 1942 onwards.

Today, the economy of Thônes is based on tourism, especially in the winter. It is still an agricultural centre too - associated with Reblochon cheese.

Reblochon originated in this area in the C13th, and it was produced in a clandestine way.

Farmers who rented fields from a landowner had to pay a sum proportionate to the amount of milk produced. On the day the landowner came to verify the quantity of milk produced, the farmer would only partly milk the cows, then finish milking after the owner had left. They made Reblochon cheese from the milk produced by the second milking.

'Reblocher' means to pinch a cow's udder again.

La Clusaz is a village and ski resort in the Aravis mountains. The name La Clusaz means 'narrow or closed valley between two mountains'. At one time, the village was called Clusa Locus Dei, or 'God's narrow place between two mountains', a name given to it by the Abbaye de Talloires, which owned La Clusaz.

The road to La Clusaz, from Annecy and Thônes, was opened in 1902, and this allowed it to become a summer and winter resort. The first cable car was built in 1956. Famous freestyle and freeride skier Candide Thovex is from La Clusaz. There's walking and mountain biking in the summer. La Clusaz hosted World Cup parapente events in 2001 and 2003.

Megève is a fashionable ski resort - perhaps better known for celebrity clients and expensive restaurants than for extreme skiing. It is at an altitude of 1,113m, so not one of the higher resorts.

The name Megève comes from the Celtic Mageva , meaning village in the middle of waters. Before winter sports tourism, it was a peaceful agricultural village. The first tourists came in the C19th - pilgrims who came to visit the Stations of the Cross erected by Reverend Ambroise Martin from 1840, then tourists hoping to profit from the pure air.

The first ski competition took place in 1914. Local farmers created ski tows, and the arrival of the Rothschild family at Mont d'Arbois hastened the development of the town and ski resort. The first téléphérique was built in 1933.

Emile Allais

Megève is known as the home town of famous skier Emile Allais, born here in 1912 (and who died in Sallanches in 2012). He learnt to ski when helping Baron Rothschild's Austrian ski instructor, as a porter. He broke a leg in 1933, while doing his military service with the chasseurs alpins , and it was then slightly shorter than the other; when he later broke the other leg, the doctor was able to make it the same length as the first.

He was the first Frenchman to win a medal in downhill skiing, and he won gold in downhill, slalom, and combined at the 1937 World Championships in Chamonix. He invented the 'French skiing method', published with Paul Gignoux at the end of 1937, and taught (in an updated version) at the French ski schools (Ecoles du Ski Francais) throughout ski resorts in France. In December 1937, he became the first French ski instructor, with medal number 1. After the Second World War, he became technical director at ENSA (Ecole Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme, which trains instructors). He was still skiing at the age of 100.

Amongst Megève's attractions other than skiing, there's a museum ( Musée du Haut Val d'Arly ); a replica of the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem, with fifteen oratories and chapels; and plane trips from the altiport at Côte 2000.

There are also plenty of high-end shops, like A Allard. Armand Allard was a tailor in Megève from 1926, and Emile Allais asked him to create ski trousers which would be practical for competition. The result was the fuseau: tight-fitting trousers, which Allais wore when winning his gold medals in 1937.

Combloux & Demi-Quartier

Victor Hugo called Combloux 'the pearl of the Alps'.

It was a summer tourist destination from the 1920s, and attracted visitors for winter sports from the 1930s. Today, it has around 12,600 tourist beds. One of the summer attractions is an outdoor swimming pool which only uses aquatic plants and animals to filter and treat the water.

The ski resort is sometimes called 'Combloux 360°', because of the views in all directions to different mountain ranges. It has 100km of pistes, and is one of the cheapest resorts in Europe.

Combloux's C18th church, the Eglise Saint-Nicolas, is classed as a historic monument.

Demi-Quartier was originally a suburb of Megève, but is now a commune in its own right. Its Town Hall is in the Place de l'Eglise in Megève, though. It's unusual that the Town Hall of one commune should be in another commune .

Côte de Domancy

Domancy is a village and a commune , with 1,904 people living in the commune . It has an attractive church, the Eglise Saint-André de Domancy, which dates from 1717, and has an older clock tower.

The Côte de Domancy was the scene of one of Bernard Hinault's triumphs. Here, he dropped Baronchelli, and went on to a solo victory in the road race, to become the 1980 World Champion.

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Seventy years aftet the first Tour finish in Annecy, Alberto Contador captured, in 2009, the last of his three stages won on the event, proving to be the fastest on a time-trial loop around the lake. After honouring those shores, the course then headed in 2013 to the surrounding mountains that gives the lake its special charm. The finish at the top of the Semnoz allowed Nairo Quintana to claim his first success on the Tour on his way to conquering the polka-dot jersey and second spot oevrall.

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Tour de France 2018 Route stage 10: Annecy - Le Grand-Bornand

The opening of the race is basically played out on the flat. Some minor slopes, but that’s it. The first KOM-points are up for grabs on Col de Bluffy, an 1.5 kilometres climb at 5.6%, that’s crested at kilometre 19. The route continues like it did before the first proper climb takes the shape of the Col de la Croix Fry. After approximately 30 kilometres the 11.3 kilometers climb at 7% looms. The second half of the Croix Fry is steeper than the first and after the passage over the top a 20 kilometres descent leads to the foot of the Montée du Plateau des Glières. It’s a 6 kilometres torture at 11.2% with an extra masochistic element in the last 2 kilometres, as this sector climbs on a dust road. As a reward another long descent welcomes the rider.

Following a modest in-between climb – Col des Fleuries – the riders enter the calm before the storm for slightly over 20 kilometres. On flat roads the route heads for the last two ascents. Firstly Col de Romme, an 8.8 kilometres climb that is averaging 8.9%. After the crest the route continues for 2 kilometres on a false flat before a 4 kilometres descent drops down to the base of today’s last obstacle. Col de la Colombière is a 7.5 kilometres climb with an average gradient of 8.5%. The ensuing descent into Le Grand Bornand is 13 kilometres, while the run-in to the line is a false flat of 1.5 kilometres.

In 2013 Le Grand-Bornand hosted its last arrival of the Tour de France. Back then, the 19th stage finished in the ski resort after a 2.5 kilometres descent from the summit of the Col de la Croix Fry. Rui Costa took the win solo, while Andreas Klöden and Jan Bakelants came in second and third.

The first three riders on the line win time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds. The intermediate sprint (at kilometre 29) does not come with a time bonus, it’s a sprint for green jersey points.

Read also:  results/race report 10th stage 2018 Tour de France .

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Van tarbes naar cauterets-cambasque: de pyreneeën in de spotlight.

Na de eerste drie etappes in Spanje zijn de Franse Pyreneeën aan de beurt. De renners beginnen in Bayonne en Frans Baskenland om via kuuroord Dax richting Pau te gaan, bekend vanwege het prachtige kasteel waar Henri IV werd geboren. Daarna volgt Tarbes waar je je kunt vergapen aan het adembenemende uitzicht op de omringende bergen, de door palmen omzoomde straten (ja echt!) en streekmarkten die je doen watertanden. Het vraagt om een ijzeren discipline van de renners om bij al dat moois in het zadel te blijven zitten. Het enige waar zij hun tanden in mogen zetten is de beklimming van de Col d’Aspin en de gevreesde Col du Tourmalet (Externe link) . Maar hun inspanningen worden beloond met de aankomst op het Plateau du Cambasque dat uitkijkt op het charmante skidorp Cauterets, midden in het Parc National des Pyrénées met de Pic du Midi (Externe link) als hoogste top. Heb je het warm gekregen van de spanning? Na een korte wandeling langs watervalletjes en mooie panorama’s vind je verkoeling bij het vredige Lac d’Ilhéou, waar je kunt zwemmen, picknicken en genieten van het uitzicht.

Puy de Dôme: de Auvergne aan je voeten

De Puy du Dôme is de vedette onder de vulkanen van de Auvergne (Externe link) . De beklimming van deze berg wordt onbetwist een van de hoogtepunten van de Ronde van Frankrijk van 2023. De laatste beklimming van de jongste en hoogste vulkaan van de Chaîne des Puys dateert namelijk van wel 35 jaar geleden! Het bedwingen van deze gevreesde maar oh zo majestueuze berg, waar je vanaf de top een 360° uitzicht hebt op de afgeronde toppen van het Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d’Auvergne, is niet iets waar alleen de renners enthousiast van zullen worden. Wist je dat je deze slapende reus ook via een muilezelpad en aan boord van een ouderwetse tandradtrein kunt beklimmen? Binnen 15 minuten brengt dit treintje je naar een hoogte van 1465 meter waar je 80 vulkanen van de Chaîne des Puy en de breuklijn van Limagne ( Unesco-werelderfgoed (Externe link) ) aan je voeten hebt. Voor wie geen genoeg kan krijgen van vulkanen is er vlakbij nog het themapark Parc Vulcania (Externe link) . Als dit alles je niet in vuur en vlam zet!

Prachtige ontsnappingen in de Jura

Val niet pardoes van je fiets bij het zien van Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne. Want wat een charme! Dit kleine stadje in het departement Ain, op één uur rijden van Lyon en de Monts du Beaujolais, markeert op ‘quatorze juillet’ het feestelijke startpunt van het peloton van de Tour de France van 2023. Het pittoreske middeleeuwse plaatsje met zijn roze stenen huizen, bruggen vol bloemen en overdekte markthal met een van de populairste streekmarkten van Frankrijk zal de harten van menig renner nog voordat ze zijn opgestapt al sneller laten kloppen. Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne is ook de toegangspoort tot La Dombes, dat met zijn vele meren en plassen een paradijs voor viskwekers en vogelaars is. De mooie omgeving nodigt uit om te wandelen, varen of fietsen (het is er lekker vlak), alvorens het hogerop te zoeken in het nabijgelegen Juragebergte (Externe link) . Vanaf de top van de Pyramide du Bugey kun je de Mont-Blanc en het Meer van Genève zien liggen. De renners van de Tour doen deze ‘piramide’ aan vanaf de Col du Grand Colombier en gaan er in volle vaart overheen. Gelukkig kun jij wél alle tijd nemen om met volle teugen van het uitzicht te genieten.

Mooie meren en legendarische bergpassen in de Franse Alpen

Tijdens de 14e etappe zetten de renners vanuit Annemasse koers naar de Franse Alpen. Alleen het is nog maar de vraag of ze wel puf hebben om van het uitzicht op het Meer van Genève te genieten. Terwijl dat zo mooi is! Net als de aanblik van het blauwgroene water van het meer van Annecy (Externe link) . Helaas voor de renners hebben ze geen tijd te verliezen, want de eerste cols dienen zich al aan en daarna is het een aaneenschakeling van bochtenwerk en klimmetjes naar legendarische bergpassen, zoals de befaamde Col du Feu, een primeur voor het peloton. De finish van deze etappe is in Morzine, op een hoogte van 1000 meter, midden in het skigebied van Les Portes du Soleil. Maar als je dacht dat je daar op je lauweren kan rusten, dan heb je het mis. In de zomer is deze kleine wintersportplaats in de Franse Alpen namelijk het ideale speelterrein voor liefhebbers van buitensporten. Ga wandelen langs de rivier de Dérêches, zwemmen in het Lac de Montriond of maak een canyoning- of via ferrata-tocht (Externe link) . Het lastigste is kiezen.

Van Les Gets naar Saint-Gervais met de Mont Blanc in het vizier

Voor het eerst sinds de oprichting van de Tour de France trappen de renners af in Les Gets en wel voor de 15e etappe. Liefhebbers van mountainbiken zullen de plaats kennen van het WK mountainbiken dat er in 2022 werd gehouden. Deze keer klinkt het startschot voor de racefietsers die een lange adem moeten hebben voor de klim naar de Col de la Forclaz de Montmin die vandaag op het programma staat. Bij de belvedère kun je op adem komen en genieten van het uitzicht op het meer van Annecy alvorens door te gaan richting Saint-Gervais, aan de voet van de Mont-Blanc. Voor wie graag zelf voet wil zetten op de hoogste top van de Alpen, is dit dorp met zijn goed bewaard gebleven traditionele erfgoed de ideale uitvalsbasis. En is het niet de berg, dan zijn het wel de thermale baden (Externe link) en de weldadige eigenschappen van het water die je welzijn er weer helemaal bovenop brengen. Dit alles in een ansichtwaardig groen kader.

Courchevel, de ster van de Alpen

De vaste gasten weten Courchevel zowel in de zomer als in de winter te vinden. Zij noemen het plaatsje liefkozend Courch’. En dat doen de renners van de Tour de France vast ook, want dit is alweer de vierde keer dat de karavaan dit skioord in de Savoie aandoet. Courchevel ligt midden in het skigebied van Les 3 Vallées bevindt en staat te boek als een van de meest mondaine wintersportbestemmingen. De plaats steekt er niet alleen hoog bovenuit vanwege de omvang van het skigebied (met Méribel en Val Thorens als beroemde buren), maar ook door het uitgebreide restaurant- en hotelaanbod (met maar liefst vijf tophotels (Externe link) , van L’Apogée tot Le Cheval Blanc, en niet te vergeten het K2 Palace, Les Airelles en Hôtel Barrière Les Neiges). Met zijn zes omliggende dorpjes en talrijke voorzieningen heeft de wintersportplaats dan ook voor ieder wat wils. Een selfie nemen op de top van La Saulire, een wandeling maken naar het Lac de la Rosière, fietsen in het Bike Park, overnachten in de refuge Lacs Merlet of wandelen door de Vallée des Avals ... Wedden dat jij binnenkort ook “Courch’” gaat zeggen!

Alle remmen los in de Vogezen

Tussen het plateau van Lotharingen en de laagvlakte van de Elzas doen de Vogezen (Externe link) met een perfecte mix van weidse natuur, tradities, ambachten en lekkere kazen niet onder voor de andere Franse berggebieden. Tussen de Grand Ballon d'Alsace en de Petit Ballon, via de beroemde Col de la Schlucht, krijgen de renners een mooie etappe in dit middelgebergte voorgeschoteld met een unieke finish op de steile hellingen van Le Markstein in het gezellige Fellering. In de winter is dit een populaire wintersportplaats voor gezinnen, maar in de zomer kun je hier, in het hart van het Parc Naturel Régional des Ballons des Vosges (Externe link) , prachtig wandelen, rodelen op de alpenweiden, paragliden en (e-)mountainbiken in de schitterende natuur. En ook zoetekauwen zitten hier goed wanneer de Tourkaravaan passeert, want in juli is het bosbessenseizoen in volle gang (en dat betekent taartjes in de boerenherbergen!).

Finish in Parijs en een voorproefje van de Olympische Spelen

Zullen de renners in Olympische topvorm zijn voor de zinderende finish op de Champs-Elysées op 23 juli 2023? Met nog slechts een jaar te gaan tot de Olympische Spelen van 2024 in Parijs (Externe link) vormt de slotsprint op de Champs-Elysées een prachtige proloog voor dit volgende grote sportevenement. Vanaf de start in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines passeert het peloton tijdens de slotetappe alle toekomstige Olympische locaties in het departement Yvelines. Een gigantische lus voert de renners langs de Colline d'Elancourt (waar de mountainbikewedstrijden worden gereden), de golfbaan Golf National in Guyancourt en het kasteel van Versailles (Externe link) , waar de paardensport en enkele onderdelen van de moderne vijfkamp plaatsvinden. Een waardig slotakkoord voor alle toppers van de Tour voor wie geen berg te hoog is.

Meer informatie:

• Bekijk het parcours van de Tour de France 2023 en de toeristische bezienswaardigheden in de buurt (Externe link)
• Binnen 5 minuten weet je alles over de Tour de France (Externe link)

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